Indeed, Zod, these are your cowardly rationalizations as to why you declined my challenge. In fact, you had your setting to decline all challenges. Lutulente pediculose!
Is blitz chess good for beginners?
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Oct 10, 2014
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#63
I_am_Zod wrote:
Spiritbro77 wrote:
pawnwhacker wrote:
Nonsense. In order to play well at speed chess, one must first be well studied and practiced at slow time controls.
Chess does require thinking and calculation. Only after becoming accomplished at traditional time clock settings should one take on blitz.
To do otherwise, as Zod commands, is to play rubbish chess. (Which, btw, is how Zod plays).
Exactly.
You do not play blitz chess. Therefore, your words are meaningless
I don't play blitz because I'm a beginner and every teacher/GM I've read states beginners should stay away from blitz. In particular, NM Dan Heisman has written more than once that beginners should stick to slow time period games.
Anyone that names himself Zod and buys into that persona has no room to talk about meaningless.... now ego mania on the other hand, would definately be in your wheel house.
Zod, from too much blitz:
Hahahahaha
I don't think so. Better to have more time to think and plan.
what is blitz?
It does improve. I mean you're still learning things about chess, not only making random moves. Some you could use... It doesn't "hurt" your game in my opinion. But it's not the perfect training tool to slow games at the same time
I don't think your advice (you, directly above me) on the subject is worth two-cents. Skills need to be developed first. Speed is secondary. A beginner playing speed chess is like someone diving into the deep sea without first having learned how to swim.
The only worse advice is that from Zod (above on this page). And, btw, he said he can beat anyone at this site. I challenged him to a game. He declined. Then he blocked me. What a pompous-ass!
Oct 17, 2014
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#71
Magnus Carlsen says young players should play a lot of blitz. He says it develops chess intuition and pattern recognition and he played a lot of it when he was a kid. Almost all of the modern greats were very good at blitz from an early age and some, like Fischer, were addicted to it.
Does that mean everyone should be playing blitz? Not necessarily. If you're already inclined to play lazy chess and are unwilling to sit still to find the best move, blitz may ingrain the bad tendencies. However, if you're not preternaturally lazy and if you have a good visual memory, I think blitz will help improve your intuition and pattern recognition while not really holding you back in other areas. That's why I let my son play it while many chess parents and coaches discourage it.
15|10 or 10|10 is the best for beginners.
yyoochess wrote:
Magnus Carlsen says young players should play a lot of blitz. He says it develops chess intuition and pattern recognition and he played a lot of it when he was a kid. Almost all of the modern greats were very good at blitz from an early age and some, like Fischer, were addicted to it.
Does that mean everyone should be playing blitz? Not necessarily. If you're already inclined to play lazy chess and are unwilling to sit still to find the best move, blitz may ingrain the bad tendencies. However, if you're not preternaturally lazy and if you have a good visual memory, I think blitz will help improve your intuition and pattern recognition while not really holding you back in other areas. That's why I let my son play it while many chess parents and coaches discourage it.
Stupid advice often comes from poor players. (Of course, this includes Zod.)
btw...neither Fischer nor Carlsen were blitz-playing patzers when they were kids.
Well, there are pros and cons imo;
pros: fast thinking, and that's like a sport, u train yourself to think slow, you remain slow, even in 15|10, or online chess, you train yourself to think fast, a 15|10 would seem like forever.
cons: After sometime of comparing both. I find that, there comes a time when my rating just can't go any further in blitz, without more study of my games in online. Yes, not even 15|10, but I think that my 15|10 truly reflects where I am. So, according to my most recent rating:
Bullet: 725, Blitz: 1148, Standard: 1382, Online: 1471, Tactics: 1524. And that obviously tells me something about the subject. I think that playing bullet is absurd, Blitz is needed for part of my games, but online is a must.
What part of learn something well first and then do it faster do some of you guys have trouble comprehending?
Oct 18, 2014
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#76
pawnwhacker wrote:
yyoochess wrote:
Magnus Carlsen says young players should play a lot of blitz. He says it develops chess intuition and pattern recognition and he played a lot of it when he was a kid. Almost all of the modern greats were very good at blitz from an early age and some, like Fischer, were addicted to it.
Does that mean everyone should be playing blitz? Not necessarily. If you're already inclined to play lazy chess and are unwilling to sit still to find the best move, blitz may ingrain the bad tendencies. However, if you're not preternaturally lazy and if you have a good visual memory, I think blitz will help improve your intuition and pattern recognition while not really holding you back in other areas. That's why I let my son play it while many chess parents and coaches discourage it.
Stupid advice often comes from poor players. (Of course, this includes Zod.)
btw...neither Fischer nor Carlsen were blitz-playing patzers when they were kids.
The proof is in the pudding. My advice is not for everyone as I've said, but I know it's helped my own son's development. He's 7 and he gained over 1500 points (USCF OTB) in 10 months. His tactics rating on here is 2100 and 2700 on chesskid.com.
If blitz (AND bullet) has helped him, I'm sure it can help other kids as well. YMMV as an adult.
I'm sure both Carlsen and Fischer were blitz-playing beginners at some point. And Carlsen didn't qualify his comments about kids and blitz by saying kids should wait until they are strong to play blitz. He said blitz will help make kids strong. He must be a patzer.
Oct 18, 2014
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#77
I on the other hand AM a patzer who played very little blitz as a kid. Don't follow my path.
"The proof is in the pudding..."
Not you, of course, but most anyone can make up a bullsheet story to substantiate their dopey opinion.
Oh, goosefeathers, you dullard.
You've played this hand before. You criticize that I've only played x quantity of games and at low levels. I've told you that's because one must start at 1200 and work up the ladder.
Anyway, you blocked me after I challenged you and you declined. Why are you blocking me and then attacking me with your big, fat, loutish mouth?
Last time I checked, you were refusing ALL challengers.
Begone!
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Here we have an abject patzer who pretends to be a GM and is condescending to everyone yet loses games one after another. This is not the definition of a patzer-troll?
You are like a Times-Square Mickey Mouse...no substance but lots of hot air. Here, sir, is what I think of you: 
Stop arguing